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While sailing back north from Carneiros beach we follow the local regatta towards Coroa de Aviao

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, Linh treats the Marina Chiapas crew to a homemade Vietnamese lunch to show our appreciation for all of their hard work making this stop safe and comfortable. Our time here is almost over so we must take advanta...

After a fantastic carnaval in Recife and a local briefing by Hans Hutzler, a local pilot and Outremer sailor, we sail south along the Brasilian coast. We visit Hans's recommendations of Suape, Porto do Galinhas and Carneiros Beach

With just three days until we depart Marina Chiapas, a routine inspection uncovers a potential catastrophic failure. Our starboard rudder's nylon bearing had failed and needed to be replaced ASAP! The crew teams up to MacGyver a replacement part to get ba...

After a smooth South Atlantic crossing we arrive in time for some Brasilian Carnival!

With our time winding down in Marina Chiapas, the crew is focused on life and safety projects. That means once again, tying to bring our tired dinghy back to life then rebuilding our injured anchor platform. Basik will be leaving Mexico soon and has to sta...

The last 4 days of the 10 day crossing to Recife, our slowest ocean crossing so far

Carnival is calling, so we leave Saint Helena to reach Recife in time. There's not a lot of wind but enough to have a decent trip with the big sails.

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle, the crew tackles phase one of our synthetic rigging upgrade by replacing our tired stainless running back stays with Dyneema. Basik is close to leaving Marina Chiapas and is trying to knock out a few more projec...

Our arrival on Saint Helena is magnificent. With the rising sun on Barn Rock it just looks like it has been polished the day before. Very special this rock in the middle of the ocean, 1300 miles from Namibia and 1750 from Recife. I guess they wanted to be ...

Champagne sailing in less than 6 days, 1300 miles from Walvis Bay in Namibia to a lonely rock in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean

We didn't realize ourselves that the influence of the arctic Benguela current is that big in Namibia. Locals tell us we're even lucky with a couple of warm and very blue days. Perfect conditions to play in the sand before crossing the South Atlantic in the...